Lancaster Fells area, River Greta section (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)
Where: England, United Kingdom (54.0° N, 2.8° W: paleocoordinates 0.6° N, 7.2° E)
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: R1 zone, lower shales and sandstones Member (Bentham Grit Formation), Kinderscoutian (318.1 - 314.6 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified shale and siltstone
• sporadic exposures of flaggy shale with siltstone beds.
Primary reference: F. Moseley. 1953. The Namurian of the Lancaster Fells. The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 109(1-4):423-454 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 8265: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 03.07.2000
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Strophomenata | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Crurithyris sp. George 1931 | |
Schizophoria sp. King 1850 |